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Amenability of Certain Banach Algebras Amenability of Certain Banach Algebras CHENG Yin Hei A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in Mathematics �Th eChinese University of Hong Kong June 2006 The Chinese University of Hong Kong holds the copyright of this thesis. Any person(s) intending to use a part or whole of the materials in the thesis in a proposed publication must seek copyright release from the Dean of the Graduate School. ！ Professor Ng Kung Fu (Chair) Professor Leung Chi Wai (Thesis Supervisor) Professor Luk Hing Sun (Committee Member) Professor Huang Li Ren (External Examiner) Amenability of Certain Ba.na.ch Algebras i Abstract The notion of amenability, is an important one in abstract harmonic analysis. B.E. Johnson showed that the amenability of a locally compact group can be characterized in terms of the Hochschild cohomology of its group algebra, thus initiated the theory of amenable Banach algebras. This survey is mainly focused on the problems relating the amenability of locally compact groups and the Banach algebras associated with the given groups. We will also see how the properties of these algebras and the relationships between them in the commutative case are generalized to the non-commutative case. 摘要 馴服性在抽象調和分析中是一個重要的槪念。B.E. Johnson證 明了局部緊緻群的馴服性是隱藏於其群代數的Hoschild上同 調中，這結果後來開創了馴服巴拿赫代數的理論。本文的重點 在於局部緊緻群及其相關巴拿赫代數的馴服性問題，當中也會 涉及到這些代數的性質和其相互關係如何從交換情形推廣至非 交換的一般情形。 Amenability of Certain Ba.na.ch Algebras ii Introduction A locally compact group G is said to be amenable if there is a left invariant mean on L°°{G). If the axiom of choice is assumed, then we have the following strange phenomenon: "An orange can be cut into finitely many pieces, and these pieces can be reassembled to yield two oranges of the same size as the original one." This is in fact an application of the so-called "paradoxical decompositions". One of the key ingredients for the proof of this paradox was that F2, the free group of two generators, lacks the property of amenability. In the theory of abstract harmonic analysis, the group algebra L^{G) is undoubtedly the most important Banach algebra. It is thus very natural to ask how to use the group algebras to characterize the amenability of the given groups. In 1972，B.E. Johnson answered this question completely. He showed that G is amenable if and only if the first Hoschild cohomology group H{V(G), E*) = {0} for any dual Banach L^(G)-bimodule E. This condition makes sense for arbitrary Banach algebras, which may have nothing to do with locally compact groups. Consequently, it is meaningfully to define "amenable Banach algebras". On the other hand, Eymard found that the Fourier algebra A{G) is the “ dual" object of the group algerba If G is abelian, A{G) is nothing but the image of the Fourier transform of The name of the theory of ^4(6') is therefore suggested as “non-commutative abstract harmonic analysis，’. As a Banach algebra, the most important property of the group algebra should be the existence of the bounded approximate identity. Many nice results on L^(G) in fact depend on this fact. The Fourier algebra, which is the dual object of the group algebra, unfortunately does not own a. bounded approximate identity in general. In 1968, Leptin proved that A{G) has a bounded approximate identity if and only if G is amenable. In the above point of view> amenable property becomes a reasonable assumption in the study of A{G). Amenability of Certain Ba.na.ch Algebras iii This survey article is divided into four chapters. All the basic results in the general theory of amenable Banach algebra will be presented in Chapter 1. The. general properties of group algebras and measure algebras will be founded in Chapter 2. We will also see how the conditions on them characterize the amenability of a given group. As said above, the amenability assumption is a suitable one in the study of A{G) when considering the "dual version" of the properties of L^(G). We will see that these “dual" properties are in fact equivalent to the amenable assumption on G. Another interesting question is to capture the amenability of a locally compact group G through the different sort of amenability of A{G), which is called "operator amenability". In this case, the operator space structure of A{G) is taken into account. Other operator cohoinological properties are also considered in this chapter. Amenability of Certain Ba.na.ch Algebras iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am deeply indebted to my supervisor, Prof. Chi-Wai Leung, not only for his im- measurable guidance but also his kind encouragement and industrious supervision in the course of this research programme. To gain techniques and insights under his supervision is undoubtedly my lifetime benefit. I am also very grateful to Prof. Anthony To-Ming Lau, Prof. Marty Walter and Prof. Nico Sprorik. They were willing to explain my ques- tions patiently in the preparation of this thesis. Moreover, I would like to acknowledge my classmates, Mr Yiu-Keung Poon and Mr Wai-Kit Chan, for their help and discussion during the program. I particularly would like to thank Mr Pak-Keimg Chan for finding a series of papers for me. Finally, I wish to thank my parents and Ms Alice Law, for giving me their constant love, encouragement and support. Contents 1 Preliminaries 1 1.1 Haar measures, Group algebras and measure algebras of lo- cally compact groups 1 1.2 Banach algebras and amenability 7 2 Cohomological properties of Group algebras and Measure algebras 13 2.1 Cohomological properties of L^{G) 13 2.2 Amenability and weak amenability of M{G) 16 3 Amenability and Fourier algebras with Bounded Approxi- mate identities 20 3.1 Properties of Fourier-Stieltjes algebras, Fourier algebras, group von Neumann algebras 21 3.2 Conditions on A{G) that characterizing the amenability of G 25 4 Operator Amenability and Fourier algebras 45 4.1 Operator Amenability 45 V Amenability of Certain Ba.na.ch Algebras vi 4.2 Hopf-von Neumann algebras and their predual structures . 50 4.3 Operator Cohomological properties of A{G) 51 4.4 Ideals in A{G) with bounded approximate identities .... 60 4.5 Other Cohomological properties of A{G) 64 A Objects or notions and their "dual" versions 69 B Results and "dual results" for general locally compact groups 70 C Results and "dual results" which are equivalent to the amenability of the group 71 Bibliography 72 Chapter 1 Preliminaries We shall have some basic results in this chapter which will be used later. 1.1 Haar measures, Group algebras and measure al- gebras of locally compact groups The sources of this chapter are [Fol] [Chapter 2,3], [Run] [Appendix A] and [Dal] [Chapter 3] unless specified. Definition 1.1.1. Let G be a locally compact group. A Haar measure on G is a non-zero Borel regular measure ^g on G such that /^g is translation invariant: (ie) ijlg{xE) = fJ^ciE) for any Borel set in G Theorem 1.1.2. Let G be a locally compact group. Then there exists a Haar measure fic on G. Moreover, Haar measure on a locally compact group G exists uniquely up to a positive multiple. Proposition 1.1.3. For a locally compact group G with a Haar measure fiQ, let U be an open subset in G, and let K be a compact subset in G. Then Hg{U) > 0 and fJ^ci^^) < oo. Theorem 1.1.4. Let G be a locally compact group with a Haar measure jic. Then we have: 1 Anieiiability of Certain Banach Algebras 2 (a) G is compact if and only if ilig{G) < oc (b) G is discrete if and only if iiq is a positive multiple of counting measure. Definition 1.1.5. Let G be a locally compact group with a Haar measure iig- If for any a: G G, we define /J^xci^) = lM3�E:c) the, n /-ixci^) is again a left Haar measure. By the uniqueness of Haar measures, there is a function A (a:) such that ii^g —从工)and A(x) is independent of the oringinal choice of fiQ. The function A : G ——> (0’ oo) thus defined is called the modular function of G. Furthermore, G is said to be unimodular if A三1. Theorem 1.1.6. Let G be a locally compact group. If G is compact or abelian, then G is unimodular. Theorem 1.1.7. Let G be a locally compact group with a Haar measure Then (a) A is continuous homomorphism from G to Ex- (b) For any f eL\iJic), [f{xy)dfiGix) = A{y-') [ f(x)d^a{^) JG JG (c) We have the following formula: f fix-')A{x-'')dmGix) = [ f{x)dmG{x) JG JG From now on, any group will be assumed to be locally compact, and G will denote a locally compact group. For any locally compact group, we fix a Haar measure mo on G. For any compact group G, we choose the Haar measure rric on G such that mc{G) 二 1. For any discrete group G, we choose ttig to be the counting measure. Definition 1.1.8. Let 1 < p < oo and let be the set of all p-integrable function on G with respect to mo. Let /i,/2 G fi and /之 are said to be equivalent if II/i — f2\\p = 0. Write the set of all equivalent classes in Anieiiability of Certain Banach Algebras 3 From now on, we use the following notation without further specification. Denote by • Cb{G) the space of bounded continuous functions on G.
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